Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The clarion call for ending the unjust eploitation of the weak by the strong of the poor by the rich has gone forth from every corner of the earth from the most ancient times. [...] She has no less emphasized the mundane and more immediate aspect of fredom too ensuring thereby to all the people of the land 'justice—social economic and poltical; liberty—of thought expression belief faith and worship; equality—of status and of1952 THE MEANING OF FREEDOM 323 opportunity; and fraternity—assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of the nation'. [...] Freedom is the ground and freedom is the goal of all life according to Vedanta which summons men and women fearlessly to undertake the mighty adventure of the Spirit and boldly to accomplish the transcendence of the limitations of finitude. [...] The starting of the dream can be known only in the wakeful awareness and the time of starting can be marked in the worltime for to mark the starting we have to be aware of the state immediately preceding it. [...] The transcendental operation of the higher awareness in the lower as described here is the basis of the general doctrine of the mystics that the lower self (the ego) has to be stilled in order to realize the higher Self the subject of the higher awareness.